FMTA News

A recent report from the Ontario Ombudsman’s Office proposes positive changes to how MLS (Property Standards) complaints are dealt with. Read on to find out more about how this may impact all Toronto tenants.

The FMTA has recently helped a tenant get maintenance done on their building through the help of Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) and the City's Municipal Licensing and Standards Municipal Residential Audit Building (MRAB) Program.

Unfortunately the FMTA did not receive all of the Municipal Election Housing Surveys by the deadline, so we were unable to include all of the candidates' responses. Attached you will find the answers and grades of candidates who sent in their surveys after our report card deadline.

The Toronto Community Foundation has unveiled their Toronto Vital Signs 2010 Report, summarizing statistics in 11 related areas that reflect Toronto's overall quality of life and challenges that need to be addressed. See the report here.

MPP Cheri DiNovo has tabled a private member's bill that proposes a landlord licensing scheme, including the provision that landlords be denied licenses if their apartments have bed bugs. Read the story here.

Join a lunchtime rally in downtown Toronto to support Bill C-304, which is set to go before Parliament for a final vote by the end of October. Bill C-304 is an Act to ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians. The rally will take place in front of the Ministry of Housing at 777 Bay Street (at College), from 12 to 1 pm on Tuesday October 19.

OneToronto is a network of environmental, arts, student, labour and social justice groups representing hundreds of thousands of Torontonians. We have come together to provide an alternative vision of the City to the one that is dominating the current election debate, to help voters realize what's at stake, and to get them engaged.